IRVING, Texas – Towson University football alum Sean Landeta has placed on the 2021 National Football Foundation (NFF) College Football Hall of Fame ballot as a divisional candidate, announced by the foundation on Tuesday.

He is one of 99 players across the country and several eras on the divisional ballot among non-FBS players.  Landeta was on this ballot last season as well.  The 2021 College Football Hall of Fame Class will be announced early next year.

Landeta, a Towson Athletics Hall of Fame member, was one of the top special teams players in college football.  He is a member of several Halls of Fame, including Division II College Football Hall of Fame, the State of Maryland Sports Hall of Fame and the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame. 

Landeta played for the Tigers from 1979-82, being the first-ever punter to be a member of the Associated Press College Division All-America Team in 1982, being on the First Team, also being selected as an NCAA Division II Kodak All-American by the America Football Coaches Association (AFCA) that same year.  He was a three-time First Team All-Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) honoree, leading the NCAA in each punting and field goals in the same year in 1980.
 
He currently holds the Towson records with 225 career punts, 9452 punting yards and a career average of 42 yards per punt.  He also converted 26 career field goals and was 70-for-74 (94.6%) on extra point attempts.

"It's an enormous honor to just be on the College Football Hall of Fame ballot considering more than 5.4 million people have played college football and only 1,027 players have been inducted," said NFF President & CEO Steve Hatchell in the NFF's press release. "The Hall's requirement of being a First-Team All-American creates a much smaller pool of about 1,500 individuals who are even eligible. Being in today's elite group means an individual is truly among the greatest to have ever played the game, and we look forward to announcing the 2021 College Football Hall of Fame Class Presented by ETT early next year."

The NFF was founded in 1947 and, according to its mission statement, is non-profit educational organization that runs programs designed to use the power of amateur football in developing scholarship, citizenship and athletic achievement in young people.  Its programs include the College Football Hall of Fame.